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" per litora spargite museum. 



Naiades, et circiim vitreos considite fontes: 

 Pollice virgineo teneros h'lc earpite flores : 

 Floribus et pictum, divae, replete canistrum. 

 At Tos, o Nj-xaphse Craterides, ite sub iindas ; 

 Ite, reourvato variata corallia truneo 

 Vellite museosis e rupibus, et mihi conchas 

 Ferte, Dea; pelagi, et pingui conchylia succo." 



N.Farthenii Giannettasii Eel. 1. 



No. 49. JANUARY 1882. 



I. — Notes on British Spiders^ with Descriptions of three new 

 Species and Characters of a new Genus. By the liev. O. 

 P. Cambridge, M.A., C.M.Z.S., &c. 



[Plate I] 



Upwards of two years have passed since my last communi- 

 cation reporting progress on British araneology (Ann. & Mag. 

 N. H. (5) iv. p. 190, pL xii., Sept. 1879). In the meantime 

 part ii., completing ' Spiders of Dorset/ has been published*, 

 and contains notices and descriptions of all the species of 

 British spiders known up to the beginning of 1881. Figures 

 of several of the new species described, but not figured, in 

 that work are now given, in the hope that they may assist 

 collectors in their determination of the species. The number 

 of spiders recorded in Great Britain and Ireland (including 

 those here described as new) is 520 ; but there is little doubt 

 that this number might be considerably increased by diligent 

 search in many as yet untried localities, especially when we 

 consider that a small area of Dorsetsliire alone has produced 

 nearly 400 species. 



* Proceedings of the Dorset Natiiral-Histor}- and Antiquarian Field 

 Club, 1870-81, pp. 1-625, pis. i.-vi. (Sherborne, Dorset : L, H. Ruegg.) 



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